[ovirt-users] best way to migrate VMs from VMware to oVirt

[Brett I. Holcomb]

On 06/15/2016 01:41 PM, Cam Mac wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I haven't had any luck using the oVirt GUI or virt-v2v (see earlier 
> email), and I need to find a way to migrate quite a few Windows hosts 
> (Windows 7, 2012, 2008, 2k3 etc) into my test oVirt cluster as a PoC 
> so I can make a compelling case for getting rid of VMware. Using OVF 
> files looks like a lot more manual work as compared to the GUI or 
> virt-v2v, with their nice conversion features.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Cam
>
>
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Are you getting errors?

Here's what I have in my notes but you may already have tried it and the 
GUI doesn't seem to have a way to do it.  I migrated from both ESXi6 and 
VMwareWorkstation 11.  First I exported as ova.

**  Make sure the export directory is mounted.
*  virt-v2v doesn't like being run as root so run it as vdsm user and 
you need to specify the shell.

   su - vdsm -s /bin/bash

For Export storage located on another computer remote to the one running 
virt-v2v use the host:/export format

   virt-v2v -i ova -of raw -o rhev -os 
ovhost1:/srv/exports/ovirt/export1 --network VLAN100 -oa sparse -on <vm 
name> <input file name>

For Export storage located on a server that is doing exporting use this 
format with local directory path for -os

   virt-v2v -i ova -of raw -o rhev -os /srv/exports/ovirt/export1 -oa 
sparse --network VLAN100 -on <vm name>  /path/<input file name>

I moved my ova files to my host (I run hosted engine deployment). Then I 
su'd and ran the second command since my host exports the oVirt Export 
directory.

Once the command completes I run the oVirt admin import and select the 
VMs from the list and move them over.  I have to change the location of 
the storage since it defaults to the Engine storage and not my iSCSI 
storage.

I've done it on mainly Linux and a Win 7 VM and it worked.  I haven't 
tried any servers yet.



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